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'Lost' Iron Age cemetery reanalyzed more than 70 years after its finds went missing

In 1955, workers in a chalk quarry in Highsted, near Sittingbourne, were working when a human skull came tumbling down the bank at the edge of a pit. It would be the first of some 26 burials, all belonging to an ancient cemetery.

'Lost' Iron Age cemetery reanalyzed more than 70 years after its finds went missing
Image: Phys.org
In 1955, workers in a chalk quarry in Highsted, near Sittingbourne, were working when a human skull came tumbling down the bank at the edge of a pit. It would be the first of some 26 burials, all belonging to an ancient cemetery.

Originally published at Phys.org

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